alienware m17x laptop not booting up.

[isaku]

Hi, i have an alienware m17x laptop and recently when i have tried to switch it on, all the lights come on however the laptop wont load up windows. i can turn volume up or down, switch caps/num/scroll on or off however the screen just stays completley black the whole time ( cant even get into boot options) any sugestions in what i can do to try and fix my problem?

[Hockson]

First of all you will need to unplug the laptop and then take the battery out and press the power power button for one minute. Do not put the battery back in, but do plug the machine in, and turn on. If you can get to Bios, reset to default settings, and reboot or in the Bios settings, make sure the HDD is the first on the boot option list.

[isaku]

ok, i did that but i still have the same problem. all the light come on (keyboard e.t.c) but the laptop just doesnt load up. i cant get onto the bios screen or anything it just stays completley blank =/

[ApPy10]

Can you try to remove the hard drives or any wireless cards and powering on using one memory DIMM at a time in alternating slots. If you an get hold of a different set of memory sticks try that as well. This way you can notice where the problem lies. Either ways it could be a bad cpu or gpu or perhaps a bad motherboard as well.